Genre: Biography

an account of someone's life written by someone else.

Books under Biography

Alexander the Great

Jacob Abbott's book meant for young readers portrays Alexander as a military genius, endowed with remarkable intelligence, physical beauty and courage...

Alexander the Great

Jacob Abbott

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Biography

Inventor, author, printer, scientist, politician, diplomat—all these terms do not even begin to fully describe the amazing and multitalented, Benjamin...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Sailing Alone Around the World

Travel Biography

A sailing memoir written by seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum, who was the first person to sail around the world alone, documents his epic solo circ...

Sailing Alone Around the World

Joshua Slocum

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Fiction Novel Biography

A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood. One of the most remarkable things about Joyce's style is that the early...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

Villette

Romance Fiction Novel Biography

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from he...

Villette

Charlotte Brontë

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Memoir Biography

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass d...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Chapters from my Autobiography

Humour Non-Fiction Biography

The Autobiography of Mark Twain refers to a lengthy set of reminiscences, dictated, for the most part, in the last few years of American author Mark T...

Chapters from my Autobiography

Mark Twain

Roughing It

Travel Biography

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his f...

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Cleopatra

Biography

The French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal once remarked, “Cleopatra's nose. Had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have...

Cleopatra

Jacob Abbott

El Libro de la Vida

Religion Biography

El Libro de la Vida se redactó en periodos sucesivos y con finalidades distintas, aunque el periodo de redacción definitivo suele situarse entre 1562-...

El Libro de la Vida

Santa Teresa de Jesus

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